Turkey deploys fighter jets to Syria border after frontier village allegedly bombed – reportsAccording to the Reuters witnesses, Turkey has scrambled two fighter jets to Syrian border after a Syrian helicopter bombarded the Syrian border town of Azmarin.

­Tensions have been running high between the countries after a brief exchange of cross-border shelling last week, and after Turkey grounded a Syrian commercial jet en route from Moscow to Damascus on Wednesday over accusations there was illegal cargo onboard.